Weird for a reason

This article describes a link between the traits of creative eccentrics and the traits of mental illness. They theorize that the inability to censor incoming stimuli or to control the ordering and prioritizing information contributes to creativity by having lots of "out the box" ideas. Fascinating, and personally meaningful as a main topic in my thesis paper, "Identity Revealed: Self-Portraits, Identity, and Actualization" (NSU 2007) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-unleashed-mind